Immigration is on the backburner again, even with Donald Trump’s regular invocation of it. The worn-out phrase “The border needs to be secure, first,” is just that — a worn-out overused phrase with no real meaning as illegal border-crossers keep coming.

The new large surge of illegal aliens, children and families with children crossing America’s southern border, began this past August. The Border Patrol apprehended some 4,476 children crossing without parents last month, nearly twice the number of September 2014.

Family crossers apprehensions in 2015 doubled those of September 2014.

The Border Patrol estimates at least 3 persons enter for every 1 apprehended — do the math. What border security?

The reason for the new surge is that everyone outside of the U.S. borders knows there will be no deportation once the border is crossed caught or not caught. Entitlements alone make the dangers and cost of crossing worth the dangers and costs.

Meanwhile, President Obama wants to admit some 10,000 “Syrian refugees” due to the chaos that is Syria, caused by his indecision and his failure to do something after his famous “red line” was ignored by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

The wave of Muslim immigrants coming to America from the Middle East and Africa needs close scrutiny. Vetting these “refugees” or “asylum-seekers” is next to impossible due to lack of proper documentation and verification of their names.

The most of all the people reaching the Greek Islands have no documents, and are military age young men with some women and children. All these “refugees” are well-dressed carrying the latest high-tech equipment as witnessed by the smartphones they use.

According to news media reports, the immigrants were paying $1,500 per person for the six mile boat ride to Greece, and $750 for children.

The Obama welcoming immigration policies for these “refugees” does not include screening for national security purposes. Since 2009, record-keeping of visa entries and illegal border-crossers does not exist.

When persons overstay their visas the Obama administration does nothing. This is why 40 percent of the estimated 30 million illegal aliens in America are visa overstays.

The illegal border-crossers if apprehended are released subject to future court appearance which they do not attend. So, visa overstays and illegal border-crossers have all the entitlements and rights of U.S. citizens with no security or medical screenings.

On Oct. 21, 2015, FBI Director James Comey testified in a Congressional hearing that there is no way to screen/check the “Syrian refugees.” Implying America must accept the risks of Islamic terror attacks or medical outbreaks, to be politically correct.

What a statement about national security! About medical well-being?

Added to Comey’s testimony, liberal apologists say ISIS members are misguided victims of Western oppression or victims of American social injustice.

The other half of the terror risk problem are the American citizen converts to radical Islam usually males and females from broken homes or having difficulties conforming to society, with criminal records or having feelings of abandonment and rejection or having mental problems.

The home-grown terrorist has a passport, knows the culture, knows the language and slang, knows the political climate, knows the laws, knows the local geography and terrain, and has free movement within the country. This is a major problem.

The Muslim “refugees” are avoiding the intra-Muslim centuries-old scrum between the Sunni and the Shia sects.

This Obama refugee policy means the violence between the Sunni and Shia sects will now be in our homeland.

President Obama sees no evil, hears no evil, and of course, speaks no evil involving Islamic terrorism.

Citizens are beginning to question why the president and the Democrats act as if the threat of Islamic jihad is nonexistent. Citizens are asking, “Does Obama see those beheadings of Christians and non-Muslims including Americans? Where is the outrage?"

Obama does not believe Islamic terrorists are a risk to America. He believes America and its values are the risk to the world. Thus, Obama believes in a two-fold approach to reducing America’s threat to the world.

First, if America has open borders and the surge of people from different cultures, different heritages, different mores, different religions, and different social norms will make America less of a threat to world order.

Obama’s second approach is to achieve a neutered America with a socialist form of isolationism — withdrawal of all military presence from the world stage and multiple free welfare entitlements for immigrants, legal, or illegal.

A neutered America with unlimited immigration will mean leveling the education standards to the lowest common denominator, causing financial redistribution, and creating moral equivalency with no judgmental opinions and no moral values permitted.

Change America can believe in.

James H. Walsh was associate general counsel with the U.S. Department of Justice Immigration and Naturalization Service from 1983 to 1994. Read more reports from James Walsh — Click Here Now.

President Obama sees no evil, hears no evil, and of course, speaks no evil involving Islamic terrorism. Citizens are beginning to question why the president and the Democrats act as if the threat of Islamic jihad is nonexistent.